Charles River: Destruction + whatever proceeds on Magazine Beach

Charles River:   Destruction + whatever proceeds on Magazine Beach

1. Introduction.
2. Allegedly “new” boat dock, doomed and excellent tree.
3. Ongoing poison dumping into the Charles River.

1. Introduction.

Phil Barber and I visited Magazine Beach and took photos, him on Friday, April 27, me on Saturday, April 28.

His are much higher quality than mine.

To put this report into context, here, again, is my Magazine Beach Playing Fields crop of a major photo in the environmental papers on the work proposed for I90 on the opposite, Boston, side of the Charles River.  It is marked as relevant to this report.

Markings translate as follows:

I Main Magazine Beach parking lot, grey area at far right.  The sand is above the mark.  The doomed tree is to the right of the area visible, and further away from the water than the sand in Phil’s photo.

II Area of construction for new / old dock effort.

III Poison rerouting / former drainage area.

2. Allegedly “new” boat dock, doomed and excellent tree.

Here are three new piles of sand observed and photographed by Phil on Friday:

Barely visible to the left and above the sand is the fake bridge which prevents access to the Boat Dock of the 2000's.  Two trees are visible, each with a pretty much identical sign.

Here is the sign.

This looks like a Cambridge sign.  Judging from the DPW markings, it would appear that Cambridge is doing the work for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.  “DPW” would refer to the Cambridge Department of Public Works.

Here is a file photo of the area around the introduced bridge at the parking lot:   This wall of vegetation was clearly put in place to starve the Charles River White Geese.

The bridge visible in Phil’s photo is to the right of the brownish item in the middle.  Tbat brownish item is at the left of Phil’s photo.  All that lovely vegetation was installed AFTER the DCR and Cambridge realized that the Charles River White Geese were having the nerve to return to this portion of their 37 year habitat TO FEED.  The DCR, with Cambridge’s enthusiastic support is driving away / killing all resident animals on this portion of the Charles River.

Most of the rest of the photos are mine, from April 29, plus file and other photos as stated.

First of all, here is my photo of the same piles of sand taken from the opposite direction.  Phil’s photo is, excellent, including the color.  My photo is not correct as far as the color goes.

I am giving you this photo because one of the 56 doomed trees is to the right of this photo, pretty close to the location of the car.

Here is that doomed tree, one of the 56 which the Cambridge City Council voted to destroy on April 24, 2018, in Order 1, right after the environmental self-sanctification on the steps of Cambridge City Hall.  This tree looks downright excellent to me, but so do so the vast majority of the trees the Cambridge City Council, DCR and friends want to destroy.

It is starting to bud very much in all the areas you can see.  It has been pruned of what must be presumed to have been dead appendages.

The latest destruction plans ARE SECRET.  The fake protectors do not show them even to their fake protective group.  The fake protectors have repeatedly lies that they are not destroying trees, and public discussion of the destruction for is censored as strongly as they censored the destruction of the hundreds of trees they succeeded in destroying between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.

Even if the plan were not secret, TENTATIVE plans not made part of the public record amount to the word of people with records of lack of veracity.  Need I say more?  Additionally, one of the cons of people like this are floating “plans.”  They can force well intentioned folks to chase their tales trying to be accurate.  There is accuracy.  The accuracy is the FILED DESTRUCTION PLANS.

Here is what passes for the plan for the “new” boat dock and looks line the old one with additions, perhaps to get closer to what should not have been destroyed in the 2000's.  One thing which is very clear is that it looks very big, perhaps it blocks the opening in addition to the Starvation Wall blocking the rest?

Here is a photo of the introduced / blocking bridge from about a week or so ago.  It does not appear on this plan, but then neither does all the roots which show in and follow this photo.

The chopped area east (down river) from the “new” / blocked boat dock.

Chopped area west (up river) from the “new” / blocked boat dock.  The introduced bridge is visible at the left.

And here are the introduced wetlands, the far side / down river side of the introduced bridge.

Here is a file photo of the Starvation Wall with opening:

That opening could very easily be blocked by this supposed “new” dock.  The chopped portions of the Starvation Wall will regrow in six years, but the bad guys will brag about “improvements.”

The DCR “plan” for the work that Cambridge may be doing now shows no roots, probably just the usual lies of omission.  Also, keeping the roots secret makes in impossible to tell if that new structure fully blocks the opening

3. Ongoing poison dumping into the Charles River..

Here is my photo of the latest view of the fake protectors blocking of the poison drainage system (III in the first map).

We have had very heavy rain.  Phil reports: “The denuded area is deeply underwater again after the latest heavy rain.”

Less than a day later, most of that deep water was gone.  The fake protectors have the poison drainage system blocked.  The poisons and the water containing them obviously poured into the Charles River.

Charles River: destruction since 1982 with loads of claims of environmental sainthood.

Charles River: destruction since 1982 with loads of claims of environmental sainthood.

1. Report from Phil Barber
a. Grand Junction Bridge Photo.
b. Photo from near the Charles River in the Destroyed Nesting Area.
2. Plans.
a. Marked up 1997 / 1999 Destruction Plans.
b. Plans from the 2016 outrage.
3. Destruction since 1982.
a. Grand Junction Bridge photo.
b. Photo from near the Charles River.
4. Summary.


1. Report from Phil Barber

Phil sent us the following photos from Spring and Fall 1990, respectively, featuring his beautiful Golden Retriever:

a. Grand Junction Bridge Photo.

b. Photo from near the Charles River in the Destroyed Nesting Area.

2. Plans

a. Marked up 1997 / 1999 Destruction Plans.

This marked up plan did not make the condensed reports because it was not in the proper format.

I have converted formats, and it is now in a format good for all three media.

The Destroyed Nesting Area is at the far right, bounded by the BU Bridge (to its right), the on ramp to Memorial Drive (above it), the Grand Junction Railroad (barely visible to right of DNA as portions of to nearly vertical lines), and the Charles River, below the DNA.

b. Plans from the 2016 outrage.

Here is the actual destruction plan for the outrage which was mostly accomplished in January 2016 by Cambridge and the Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation.  The most important part not accomplished then is the Wild Area and the Destroyed Nesting Area / Goose Meadow.

The Grand Junction is the two lines running from the bottom middle up and to the left to about a quarter of the map from the right.

These plans show only one tree not destroyed out of a thick woods.

The MDC Draft Plan document has three vertical arrows under and to the left of the BU Bridge.  These are pointing out the planned highway in the Charles River connecting the two halves of Boston University’s proposed turf.

3. Destruction since 1982.

a. Grand Junction Bridge photo.

The Golden Retriever is resting on the down river abutment of the railroad bridge, the eastern edge.

The first photo is taken from the nearest part of the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge, essentially at the bottom boundary of the DNA and the Grand Junction.  This point is considerable above the DNA.

Visible in the picture to the right is the Charles River.  It forms a bay on the far side of the Grand Junction Bridge, leaving the Wild Area a small portion between it and Memorial Drive.

Here is the area behind the dog as it looked in May 2016.

And the area to the left, slightly further behind the dog.

April 2016, this goose is attempting to nest below the point of the photo, in an area devoided of ground vegetation.  She is the white shape at the base of the right side of the V shaped tree combination.

April 2016, perhaps another goose attempting to nest, directly in the line of sight of the photo.

Here is a view in December 2016 of the bay taken from the area behind the dog in 1990.

b. Photo from near the Charles River.

Phil’s second photo is taken from a point just above the Charles River and to the left of the Grand Junction Bridge.

Here is a 2017 photo of the location of this photo in the Destroyed Nesting Area.

At the top is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.  The dog was on the far abutment of the bridge, toward its left in the photo.  The Charles River is visible below the bridge.  The second dog photo was taken near the river to the right.

The worst destruction has been done mostly FOR THE DCR by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” and by lazy railroad workers with the very clear blessing of the DCR.  The creator / head of the "Conservancy" group has recently retired, having achieved a great deal of destruction while lying of “Conservancy.”

Here is a view from the BU Bridge which puts the current locations of both of Phil’s photos into better view.  The destruction was achieved by government paid state and local bureaucrats, who, with the Cambridge City Council are working to make things even worse on the Charles River.

And here is a view of the denuded hillside beneath the Grand Junction in May 2016.

Formerly lush with vegetation.

And here is a repeat of the first photo in this series, Phil’s oldest photo of the DNA, published a few days ago, taken very close to the tracks, December 1982, looking down either the above portion of the hillside under the tracks or a few feet away. 

This was a little more than a year after the first Charles River White Geese were  brought to the Charles River by employees of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority at their environmentally commendable water treatment plant.  Their watch dog passed away; so they got white geese to sound the alarm.

4. Summary.

And the Cambridge City Council shows its “environmentalism” by pretty much non stop yelling at the other guy.  They even have the nerve to give the impression they are standing up to Climate Change.  The terrible stuff is done as fast as possible and as secretly as possible.

Plus please remember the April 24, 2017, order 1 outrage, in which the Cambridge City Council voted to support the destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees at the Magazine Beach Recreation area.  That vote was taken very promptly after a bunch of incumbent City Councilors led a rally supporting their sainthood on environmental issues on the steps of Cambridge City Hall.

The Cambridge City Council named the Cambridge Police Station after a City Manager damned by three levels of Court because he destroyed the life of a Black Female Cape Verdean department head, Malvina Monteiro.  They also claim to be pro Women’s Rights.  One incumbent and possibly two were removed from office by the electorate.

Trial Judge’s opinion:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html.  She included extended quotes from the testimony of the guilty City Manager, Robert Healy.

Appeals Court panel’s Opinion which they refused to call an opinion as a means of showing their contempt for the City of Cambridge:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/appeals-court-decision-in-monteiro.html.

So they keep destroying, and YELLING AT THE OTHER GUY.

Charles River:: Goose Meadow, now and old; Magazine Beach in greater detail.

Charles River::   Goose Meadow, now and old; Magazine Beach in greater detail.

1. Phil Barber.  Goose Meadow, now and very old.
2. Personal Note.
3. More Magazine Beach Detail,
4. Additions: Goose Meadow / Destroyed Nesting Area
5. Additions: Excellent, doomed trees across from Shopping Center Parking Lot.


1. Phil Barber.  Goose Meadow, now and very old.

A. Phil.

Phil reports from April 21.

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This odd sign was on the fence by the goose meadow pointing toward the entrance. Several kids trooped in and wandered around a bit and left. Fine print says it's from "American Foundation for Suicide Prevention".

Beneath it is the earliest pic I have of the meadow, December 82, with a friend's dog.

B. Your Editor.

(1) First Photo.

Phil’s first photo is from the Entrance to the Goose Meadow which was illegally created by Boston University at the northwest corner or the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

Way down can be seen some of the Charles River White Geese.  Going further in that direction you come to the eastern edge of the Destroyed Nesting Area, the Grand Junction railroad.  If you look really close, you can see the railroad tracks on the rise (unless I am seeing more than I reasonable can).

The orange sign is the suicide prevention sign.

You can see the right hand (eastern edge) of the opening Boston University illegally created in November 1999.  To the right of the photo, not in sight, is the northern end of the BU Bridge over the Charles River.  The orange stringy stuff is another piece of heartless animal abuse from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Since the DCR and Cambridge started deliberately starving the Charles River White Geese by keeping them from their food of most of the last 37 years at the Magazine Beach Playing Fields, the DCR learned that the Charles River White Geese were having the nerve to get food through this entrance by crossing the on ramp to Memorial Drive, the boulevard on the Cambridge / North Side of the Charles River, to FOOD under Memorial Drive, which is on its own bridge structure at this point.

We are dealing with truly vile people.

The DCR and Cambridge are determine to implement a goal of the DCR its “Charles River Master Plan” which are ignored as convenient for animal abuse.  The goal is to kill off or drive away all resident animals from this part of the Charles River.

Allowing resident animals to have real food is unacceptible to these vile entities.

The Charles River White Geese are extremely careful jaywalkers.  They stand on the sidewalk just to the left of the entrance and wait to cross until there are no cars coming.  Unfortunately, they are geese and some do dawdle.  It is always a pleasure to see those nasty commuters with big smiles on their faces admiring these beautiful animals.  I have never heard a horn beep to rush them, although, if I am around, I will nicely shush the dawdlers in the proper direction.

(2) Second Photo.

The dog in the foreground is the nekghbor’s dog, and the dog behind him, I presume, is the same Golden Retriever from Phil’s photo in 1989, which I passed on yesterday or the day before.

This looks like the opposite angle from the last shot of the Golden Retriever, from the foot of the hill supporting the Grand Junction Railroad.  This shot looks like it was taken from next to the railroad.  You can see the not destroyed Nesting Area behind the Golden Retrieve.

2. Personal Note.

I am writing this report from Starbucks’ grand second floor dining room facility over looking Harvard Square.

I have spent the last two days at an alumni reunion of mine at UMass Amherst.

I mixed business with pleasure.  I have worked as a background performer on the first season Castle Rock series soon to stream on Hulu.  I worked in Orange and Athold which are traditional communities just north of Route 2, the northern of two east - west highways in western Massachusetts.

Getting to these places is a major drive.  I would be much happier working two days at a time and staying over.  So I tried a local motel in Orange just south of Route 2.

To my great surprise, the motel did not seem to have WiFi.  So I did my last report yesterday morning from a rather new Starbucks in Athol which is east of Athol center which is in turn east of Orange.

I arrive at my first alumni event on Saturday because I got so hung up on the last report from Athol.

So I was late for an alumni event at UMass Amherst perhaps 90 miles west of our favorite part of the Charles River because is was working in the western Starbucks facility in Athol, also very far distant from the Charles River.

3. More Magazine Beach Detail,

These reports are all presented initially in great detail on this blog.  Condensations are then posted on the Facebook page of the Charles River White Geese and then on an email list, mostly local in the area around the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.

I have in the past few days, reported on the apparent attacks of Cambridge and the DCR on the environment at Magazine Beach.  A major part of the outrages are directly harmful to the Charles River White Geese.  Physically, the biggest part of the outrages are the destruction of another 56 major trees on the Magazine Beach Recreation Area including the playing fields.

This destructiveness destroys the view from the playing fields as part of the massive tree destruction.

I confused one reader.  Part of the destruction is gentrification.  Cambridge and the DCR are destroying an environmentally responsible parking lot used by little guys for many years to have picnics on the hill west of the playing fields.

I confused one reader with the post, and here is the response I gave to his comment on the Charles River White Geese facebook page.  While I am at it, please friend the Charles River White Geese on Facebook.

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Thank you very much for you astute comments.

The outrage is so massive that it really is impossible to BRIEFLY convey it.

Regrettably, we are talking a fairly large area, and the destruction varies skillfully from one part of the area to another, and varies with the outrages which are inflicted, accordingly.

I have just posted a report on the most sensitive area, the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. This formerly was their home in bad weather and during nesting. It now is the only part of their formerly mile long habitat which is allowed to them, and it has been viciously destroyed.

In the last few days, I have delivered an analysis of PART of the destruction in the Magazine Beach Playing Fields where, for most of the last 37 years, the Charles River White Geese had as their principal home and food. It is a long analysis with a lot of photos, including photos of the area which is the subject of this report.

This report concerns an area which has never been used by the Charles River White Geese, too high, too steep a hillside to access. This area is the subject of planned environmental outrages which are discussed, with photos, at least in part, in that analysis, along with the Playing Fields as well.

This report is coming, but it involves considerable work to change formats.

In addition to heartless animal abuse and environmental destruction (and attack on women's rights (Cambridge only)), another outrage from the Cambridge City Council and the Department of Conservation and Recreation is heartless gentrification in this location which is on a very visible hill east of the Playing Fields which have been their home most of the last 37 years.

These plans involved massive destruction of mostly excellent trees and destruction of the environmentally sensitive parking lot used by non upper class folks who traditionally use this area for barbeques.

Attached is a photo from the I90 rebuild project across the Charles. The Destroyed Nesting Area is off this photo to the right / east. The Magazine Beach playing fields fill the photo.

The doomed / excellent park is to the left.

I do not exactly know the distances involved. My guess is that it runs about half a mile.

Thank you very much for your concern and interest.

If you get a chance, please friend the Charles River White Geese on Facebook if you have not done so already.

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Phil’s photos in section 1 were taken at either edge of the Goose Meadow, which is to the right / east of the Magazine Beach Playing Fields in the above picture.  First comes a sewerage treatment plan from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, then the BU Bridge, then the Goose Meadow / Destroyed Nesting Area.

The Goose Meadow is bounded by the BU Bridge, the on ramp to Memorial Drive, the Grand Junction Railroad, and the Charles River.

Here is a map of the area I prepared in response to and based on the DCR destruction plans which, in turn, were based on City Manager Healy’s plan that was first announced in 1997 by the predecessor to the fake protective group which calls itself the Charles River “Conservancy.”.

The middle area is the MWRA plant.  It is beautifully designed, with a meadow and trees on top of it.  On the right is the BU Bridge and the Destroyed Nesting Area.  To the left is the playing fields.  The arrows below the MWRA plant show a highway in the Charles River intended to connect the playing fields to the Destroyed Nesting Area to combine the two locations for the benefit of BU.

It is no coincidence that there is only one opening in the Starvation Wall.  That opening is the western end of this proposed highway to connect the two locations for the benefit of Boston University.

And here is a panorama of the Destroyed Nesting Area taken from the BU Bridge.

ALL the destruction was created by the DCR or based on DCR plans.

At the top of the photo is the Charles River.  Below it is the Grand Junction Railroad, and you seen the formerly luscious Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  The white figures are members of the gaggle.  To the right is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge and under it is the Charles River.

5. Additions: Excellent, doomed trees across from Shopping Center Parking Lot.

West of the area in the I90 photo is the ADMITTEDLY excellent seven  tree grove across from the MicroCenter parking lot which the DCR and the Cambridge City Council (order 1, April 24, 2017) want to destroy.  That vote came promptly after the love fest on the stairs of Cambridge City Hall with members of the City Council praising themselves for their SUPPOSED environmental sainthood. 

As I have said, at least one City Council incumbent, and perhaps two, has failed of reelection based on heartless human abuse in which a Black, Cape Verdian, Female city department head had her life destroyed in retaliation for her working for women’s rights among employees of the City of Cambridge.

Judge, jury and appeals court panel roundly condemed the Cambridge City Manager.  The Cambridge City Council payed out more that $10 million because of the outrage, and named the Cambridge Police Station after the COURT PROVEN, with great emphasis, scoundrel.

Charles River: Current situation in context.

Charles River:   Current situation in context.

Phil Barber has given me a photo of the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese in 1989.

Two points.

First, I love Goldens.

Secondly, this photo is a very reasonable depiction of the treasure which has been destroyed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the City of Cambridge.

The DCR had road signs up telling folks to take care of the Charles River White Geese, and taking advantage of the great love which exists for them.

The first hint I had of the outrage coming came in 1997 when one of the usual Fake Groups, the predecessor of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” presented plans of then City Manager Robert Healy for the Destroyed Nesting Area and Magazine Beach.

In summer of 1999, I got the plans of the DCR for the area from then then lead “Planner.” SHE POINTED OUT TO ME THE SMALL POINTS BY WHICH THE DCR PLANS DIFFERED FROM THE HEALY PLANS.

In November 1999, the first destruction was inflicted by Boston University.  BU acknowledged awareness of the vileness of its behavior by lying about its guilt for six months, until the Cambridge Conservation Commission condemned BU for the outrage.  Then they switched from lying denials to bragging.

Here is a video posted by a gentleman I have never met, Ernie Sarno, of the Charles River White Geese feeding in the middle of the night across from the Hyatt Regency Hotel, a location which is now barred to the Charles River White Geese by obstacles at the water line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-xSIYrB5o.

Since then, the Cambridge City Manager Machine, City Managers, City Council, AND FRIENDS have conducted massive environmental destruction, 3.4+ acres at Alewife, and the magnificent grove at the Harvard Square end of the Cambridge Common.

The condemnation of the Courts for City Manager Robert Healy’s destruction of the life of Malvina Monteiro, a Black Cape Verdean woman department head BECAUSE SHE WORKED FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS for female employees of the City of Cambridge may be read at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html (Trial Judge), and http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/appeals-court-decision-in-monteiro.html (Appeals Court panel).  The jury awarded more than triple penal damages on top of more than a million dollars real damages.

The City Council showed its opinion of the judicial condemnations of the outrage in Cambridge by spending more than 10 million dollars in penalties / court costs / legal fees, and by naming the Police Station after Robert Healy.

The Monteiro outrage overlapped / slightly follow the start of these environmental /animal outrages, demonstrating the canard that animal abusers frequently graduate to human beings.

Our videos of the January 2016 destruction and “improvements” are posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o, and https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.

The official City Clerk’s record of our detailed analysis to the Cambridge City Council of the pending Magazine Beach outrages is posted at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249.  There have been many updates.  The voted for destruction almost immediately followed a lovefest on the stairs of City Hall in which Cambridge City Councilor, loudly proclaimed their environmental sainthood.

The Monteiro outrage very clearly resulted in the failure of reelection of one city councilor, and probably a second.

Here are a couple of photos of the outrage inflicted on the Destroyed Nesting area by the DCR with Cambridge support / assistance, and with Cambridge and DCR plans to make it worse.

Charles River: Update on doomed Magazine Beach Recreation Area, Little Guys’ Parking Lot.

Charles River:  Update on doomed Magazine Beach Recreation Area, Little Guys’ Parking Lot.

Several days ago, we reported on decidedly threatening activity in a core part of the Magazine Beach park.

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My Report on April 18, 2018:

The big earth mover is quite scary in the parking lot.

But the area which is now disrupted is rumpled dirt which looks like it is replacing the former spray.

Phil Barber replied, Same day.

I went to MB this afternoon and saw they had put in a handicap access ramp (it appears) leading from the parking area up to the old magazine. The work looks incomplete, more asphalt has to be laid down to even it out. Does seem like excessively large equipment for the size of the project. The "No Parking" signs are all gone.

Haven't seen the young hawk again. Maybe he was just passing through. There were lots of robins there this afternoon, a fine sign of spring.

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Here is Phil’s photo of the BIG machines from April 11

And my photo, from April 13, of the handicapped ramp and one of the very bizarre signs.  The nicest thing that I can say about this NO PARKING sign is that it reaffirms my very strong impression of lack of professionalism of this vile organization.

Note the total absence of a date involved.

I will follow with a very detailed update on the situation on the Magazine Beach Recreation Area of the Charles River, including a lot of photographs, and casting deserved blame.

Charles River: Little Guys’ Parking Lot Destruction Imminent?

Charles River:   Little Guys’ Parking Lot Destruction Imminent?

1. Introduction:
2. Report.
3. Analysis.
4. Recommendation to the Cambridge City Council.


1. Introduction:

On April 24, 2017, members of the Cambridge City Council lot a rally cannonizing themselves as environmental saints on the stairs of City Hall.

They moved inside and their first order passed supported the destruction in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.  The most reprehensible destruction is the destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees.

Highly irresponsible as well is the proposal to destroy the little guys parking lot used by needy people to have barbeques in the densely treed park at on the hill west of the playing fields.  Naturally, the plans call for massive destruction in those trees as well.

2. Report.

Phil Barber reports this morning, 04-11-18, at 7:46 am

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most likely!

The work to dismantle the small parking place next to the pool seems about ready to start. The area was lined with no parking signs and two earth movers and a dump truck were parked there yesterday ready to go.

I wonder if some of the Phragmiteophobia had something to do with the homeless man who hung out on the benches there. He had a big pile of stuff and a spare bike concealed under a blue tarp in the reeds they tore down. He's the black fellow with dreadlocks who seemed always high. Harmless enough but probably frightening to the same elements who are getting rid of the place where the Riverside folks traditionally parked for their family picnics. They removed the barbecue grills they used a few years ago now from that area too.

 I forget the guy's name now. He would always be there, no matter what the weather, in my numerous observations, even once in a snowstorm. He still cycles by frequently but is no longer4/11/18 ubiquitous.

Phil

3. Analysis.

Here are some photos of the area apparently impacted by latest outrage by the Massachusetts Deparment of Conservation and Recreation on the Charles River with the support of the Cambridge City Council.

This area is used for access for parking by poor people to have a place by the water for a barbeque.

The Cambridge City Council is incessant on its claims to be benefiting the needy.  They keep these outrages as quiet as possible.

Here is a distance view:

The sign identifies the Magazine Beach Recreation Area to the public, and makes this beautiful park the core of it.

Tree destruction proposed for this area is massive.  Whether it is going to be done now is impossible to say.  Secrecy is the name of the game, along the many, many, many corrupt practices which are at the core of so much destruction and heartless animal abuse on the Charles River.

This large tree is the ONLY tree in the parking lot NOT slated for destruction.  View is from the west.

Here is a view from the east.  The roadway is the parking lot.  All trees surrounded by the roadway but that one are doomed.

And here are more trees in the parking lot that the Cambridge City Council and Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation want to destroy.

And here is one of their picnic tables.

4. Recommendation to the Cambridge City Council.

The Cambridge City Council should give us honesty in government.

Stop lying that the City Council is pro environment, or change sides to the side you claim to be on.

To be specific, we request that, consistent with repeated expression of environmental concerns by THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL, the following actions be taken:

A Retract and rescind the City Council’s action on April 24, 2017, in order 1, supporting the destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees and related outrages in the Magazine Beach recreation area.

B. Trash the Department of Conservation and Recreation as manager of all properties under its jurisdiction in Cambridge in favor of replacement by the Department of Transportation.

C. End the environmental outrages planned by the DCR and Cambridge and reverse, insofar as feasible, the many outrages accomplished by the DCR, Cambridge and related entities from November 1, 1999, to the current date.

Charles River: Good / Bad with Wildlife, or all bad?

Charles River:   Good / Bad with Wildlife, or all bad?

The following is based on a communication sent to the Cambridge, MA, USA City Manager and City Council on April 8, 2016.

1. Cooper’s Hawk:   Good or Bad?
2. Turkeys deep in Residential Cambridge, Definitely Bad.
3. The Cambridge City Council should give Cambridge honesty in government.

1. Cooper’s Hawk:   Good or Bad?

A. Report.

Phil Barber forwarded us this photo taken on April 5 of a newly sighted young Cooper’s Hawk on Magazine Beach.

He commented on April 6: 

“I saw the new hawk again this PM, near the Magazine.  Maybe he’s trying to establish a new territory.”

B. Comment.

 “The Magazine” refers to an historical building in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area which the fake protectors spent years telling people to look at and ONLY look at.  Their orders have expanded since then inasmuch as the fake protectors are now fighting

(1) to destroy 56 trees and do related outrages, including

(2) the rerouting of poisons from the playing field into the Charles River, and

(3) the construction, clearly as contractor Make Work, of a second boat dock, while leaving the 20th Century Boat Dock in the state of Limbo in which it has existed since it was rended impossible to use as part of the outrages of the 2000's.

The outrages achieved by the Cambridge City Council and the outrages the Cambridge City Council is silent about, with a wink and a nod must be understood as part of this happy return.

First of all, the prior Cambridge City Manager bragged about terrific plans on the Charles River in the months before Cambridge and the DCR destroyed hundreds of trees and animal habitat between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.

We have posted a detailed video of this outrage on the Charles, with forewarning of outrages coming to Magazine Beach.  The principal video, The Destruction of Memorial Drive, January - February 2016, Final Cut is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.  An international expert’s analysis of the subsequent “improvements,” Nature and Beauty Ripped Out on the Charles River is posted at https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.

We provided individual copies of the main video to the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge City Manager with individual copies provided to each councilor.  We would be pleased to provide these to the new councilors as well.

People who fought for the destruction of the hundreds of trees already destroyed through company union tactics and direct action are now fighting for destruction of 56 trees and related damage at Magazine Beach.  They apparently lobbied the City Council to support that destruction and the City Council complied in the outrageous order 1 of April 24, 2017, made promptly after city councilors conducted a lovefest for their claimed environmental sainthood on the steps of city hall.

We debunked this cynical tomfoolery in our letter of June 6, 2017, posted by the city clerk at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249 with multiple updates.  In particular we devastated the “dead or dying” falsehood in that motion which in turn was a sanctification of skilled and fraudulent word games by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Most recently the city council has happily sat on its hands (“silence with a wink and a nod”) when we reported that the same scoundrels are now directly relocating poisons being dumped on the Magazine Beach playing fields by Cambridge and the DCR into the Charles River through the outrage pictured above.

The reprehensible order 1 of April 24, 2017, gave the DCR a blank check, with praise.  The DCR and Cambridge introduced poison usage at Magazine Beach’s playing fields during the outrages of the 2000's.  Now the DCR and the Cambridge City Council want to expand the poisons to the top of the Magazine Beach hill and between the swimming pool and the Charles River.

To put it succinctly, these outrages are hostile to the bird population.  Dying bees have been seen at Magazine Beach, obviously poisons by the DCR and the Cambridge City Council.

It is most definitely a positive sign that this Cooper’s Hawk is trying to reestablish a habitat at Magazine Beach, but the massive tree destruction of 2016 has a city council which wants a further massive destruction.  AND THE POISONS WHICH CAMBRIDGE AND THE DCR are happily dumping on the playing fields and preventing drainage makes a reprehensible AND ANIMAL DANGEROUS situation worse.

Here, again, are samples of the excellence under attack by the Cambridge City Council, excellent trees needed by the birds, the animals, AND BY OUR WORLD.

It is great to see this Cooper’s Hawk trying to reestablish a habitat at Magazine Beach.

It is flatly and simply reprehensible for the Cambridge City Council and its cheerleaders to be aggressively destroying that habitat.

In implementation of this outrage, we understand that a guilty member of the Cambridge City Council will be a guest at a meeting of the most destructive scoundrels.  At that meeting, this tree destroyer will discuss with a group of tree destroyers how to protect trees.

Rejection of reality in favor of fooling the voters.



2. Turkeys deep in Residential Cambridge, Definitely Bad.

The following photographs were taken on Auburn Street in residential Cambridge on March 15.  Auburn Street is, of course, about three streets south of Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square.  The main artery River Street can be seen in the background of the photo to the right.



Very clearly, wild animals roaming the residential streets of the very densely populated City of Cambridge are excellent examples of the results of the destructive behavior of the Cambridge City Council and its friends.

And, the non stop YELLING AT THE OTHER GUYS by the Cambridge City Council shows the Cambridge City Council’s determination to fool an electorate which expects its city council to be a responsible entity.

3. The Cambridge City Council should give Cambridge honesty in government.

The Cambridge City Council should stop lying that the City Council is pro environment, or change sides to the side The Cambridge City Council claims to be on.

To be specific, we request that, consistent with repeated expression of environmental concerns by THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL, the following actions be taken:

A Retract and rescind the City Council’s action on April 24, 2017, in order 1, supporting the destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees and related outrages in the Magazine Beach recreation area.

B. Trash the Department of Conservation and Recreation as manager of all properties under its jurisdiction in Cambridge in favor of replacement by the Department of Transportation.

C. End the environmental outrages planned by the DCR and Cambridge and reverse, insofar as feasible, the many outrages accomplished by the DCR, Cambridge and related entities from November 1, 1999, to the current date.